Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo

It was time to let go. That day on the Shadow Fold, Mal had saved my life, and I had saved his. Maybe that was meant to be the end of us.

There's tremendous grief in these lines but also a desire to be done, to stop waiting or hoping for someone Alina believes has abandoned her. It's also meant to pair with a line that appears in Siege and Storm: "There is no end to our story." I think there are moments in our lives when we have to rewrite the narrative of a person, when someone who was only a friend becomes something more, or when someone we thought would be with us forever turns out to be someone just passing through.